rCarto (version 0.8)

mapCirclesTypo: Proportionnal Circles Colored by the Modalities of a Qualitative Variable

Description

This function represents two variables through a proportional circles map. The areas of the circles are proportional to values in a quantitative variable and their colors reflect a the modalities of a qualitative variable.

Usage

mapCirclesTypo(shpFile, shpId, df, dfId, var, var2, 
               fixedNorm = FALSE, shareOfCircles = 0.02, 
               radiusMax = 0.5, valueMax = max(df[, var], na.rm = TRUE), 
               lgdRndCircles = 0, posLegCircles = "topright", 
               circleCol = "grey", baseCol = "#FFEDA0", 
               posLegTypo = "bottomleft", palCol = "Paired", NACol = "grey", 
               title = paste(var, var2, sep = " & "), 
               legendCircles = var, legendTypo = var2, 
               author = "author", sources = "sources", 
               scalebar = FALSE, scalebarSize, scalebarText, 
               northArrow = FALSE, northArrowSize, 
               width = NULL, height = NULL, txtCex = NULL)

Arguments

shpFile

Path to a polygon shapefile.

shpId

Unique identifier of the shapefile. It must correspond to dfId.

df

Data frame that contains the variables to be mapped.

dfId

Unique identifier of the data frame. It must correspond to shpId.

var

Name of the positive numeric variable to be mapped through the sizes of the circles.

var2

Name of the qualitative variable to be mapped.

fixedNorm

FALSE (default) : the sum of the surfaces occupied by circles is proportional to the size of the map and is declared by the shareOfCircles argument, radiusMax and valueMax are not used. TRUE

shareOfCircles

Share of the surface of the map occupied by circles (0.02 is 2%).

radiusMax

Size (in cm) of the radius of the biggest circle.

valueMax

Value used to normalize the size of the largest circle (in variable units).

lgdRndCircles

Rounding of the values of the variable presented in the legend of the circles.

posLegCircles

Position of the legend of the circles(top, bottom, left, right, center, topleft, topright, bottomleft or bottomright).

circleCol

Color of the circles in the legend

baseCol

Color of the base map.

posLegTypo

Position of the legend of the typology (top, bottom, left, right, center, topleft, topright, bottomleft or bottomright).

palCol

Color palette, provided through RColorBrewer, to be used in the map. Use display.brewer.all() to see the available color ramps. For a more detailed overview : RColorBrewer.

NACol

Color used to draw units with no data (NA).

title

Title of the map.

legendCircles

Title of the legend for the circles

legendTypo

Title of the legend for the typology

author

Two lines (author and sources) at the bottom of the map are available to display additional information. It is recommended to display the name of the author and the sources of the data and the base map.

sources

Two lines (author and sources) at the bottom of the map are available to display additional information. It is recommended to display the name of the author and the sources of the data and the base map.

scalebar

FALSE (default): don't draw a scale bar. TRUE : draws a scale bar. The choice of the scale bar location is interactive.

scalebarSize

Size of the scale bar in map units.

scalebarText

Text of the scale bar.

northArrow

FALSE (default) : don't draw a North arrow. TRUE : draws a North arrow. The choice of the North arrow location is interactive.

northArrowSize

Size of the North arrow in map units.

width

Width of the map in cm.

height

Height of the map in cm.

txtCex

Size of the texts.

Value

• A map is displayed in the graphic window. You can export the map in raster or vector format (pdf).

Details

The circles are centered on the centroids of the polygons. Only the six first arguments are compulsory.

See Also

ll{ rCarto-package rCarto package mapCircles proportional circles mapCirclesChoro proportional circles colored by a discretized quantitative variable mapCirclesTypo proportional circles colored by the modalities of a qualitative variable mapChoropleth choropleth mapChoroTypo typology mtq data commune shapefile }

Examples

library(rCarto)
data(mtq)

# minimal example
mtq[c(1,12,18,23,33,8,24),"beach"] <- "No access to the beach"
mtq[c(2,4,5,6,9,13,17,20,21,25,26,29,31,34,11,27,7,19),"beach"] <- "Caribbean Sea"
mtq[c(14,15,16,22,28,30,32,10,3),"beach"] <- "Atlantic Ocean"
mapCirclesTypo(shpFile=file.path(path.package("rCarto"), "shapes/COMMUNE"),
              shpId="INSEE_COM",df=mtq,dfId="ID",var="P09_POP",var2="beach")